TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aborampah,Osei-Mensah
AU  - Beach,David N.
AU  - Feltz,Gaétan
AU  - Fetter,Bruce
AU  - Gardinier,David
AU  - Headrick,Rita
AU  - Henige,David
AU  - Hill,Kenneth
AU  - Kivilu,Sabakinu
AU  - Mansell Prothero,R.
AU  - Mitchell,J.Clyde
AU  - Musambachime,Mwelwa C.
AU  - Ngoleka Mlia,Justice R.
AU  - Nyambariza,Daniel
AU  - Ohadike,Patrick O.
AU  - Sari,Djilali
AU  - StMoulin,Léon de
AU  - Stengers,Jean
AU  - Stetzer,Frank C.
AU  - Stichter,Sharon
AU  - Stone,Jeffrey C.
AU  - Tranberg Hansen,Karen
TI  - Demography from Scanty Evidence: Central Africa in the Colonial Era 
SN  - 9781555871994
U1  - 304.6/0967 20/eng/20231120
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Maps, Figures, and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; CENTRAL AFRICA MAP --; 1 Demography in the Reconstruction of African Colonial History --; PART 1 SOURCES --; 2 Some Methodological Reflections --; 3 Bibliographic Aids for the Historical Demographer --; 4 The Limits of Colonial Statistics: A Lesson from Algeria --; 5 First Steps in the Demographic History of Zimbabwe: The Colonial Period from 1895 to 1922 --; 6 Factors Affecting Census Reliability in Colonial Zambia, 1900-1930 --; 7 Recollections of the Annual Population Count in Late Colonial Zambia --; 8 Demographic Data Resources for Colonial Malawi --; 9 A Demographic Approach to Colonial Burundi, from Administrative Documents, 1896-1960 --; 10 Catholic Missions, Mentalités, and Quantitative History in Burundi, ca. 1900-1962 --; PART 2 INNOVATIONS IN METHOD --; 11 Demographic Estimation from Deficient or Defective Data --; 12 Perspectives on Census Data for Migration Measurement --; 13 Maps as Sources in Demographic Studies of Africa's Past, with Particular Reference to Zambia --; 14 Applications of Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis to Colonial African Census Data --; 15 The Migration of Women in Colonial Central Africa: Some Notes Toward an Approach --; 16 Labor Migration and Urban Child Labor During the Colonial Period in Zambia --; 17 Social Factors in Child Mortality in a Sample of Urban Women --; 18 Social and Organizational Variables Affecting Central African Demography --; Comments --; PART 3 CASE STUDIES --; 19 Studying the Population of French Equatorial Africa --; 20 What is Known of the Demographic History of Zaire Since 1885? --; 21 Population and Worker Mortality in Western Zaire, ca. 1900-1935 --; 22 To Address a Common Problem --; The Contributors --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851521
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685851521
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685851521/original
ER  -